Meretz chief slams Poland declaration as ‘selling our people’s history’

In a reference to the Biblical Esau who sold his birthright to the patriarch Jacob, Meretz head MK Tamar Zandberg says the Israeli-Polish declaration on the Holocaust “sold our people’s history for​ a bowl of lentil soup.”

“Netanyahu has signed an agreement that the world’s prominent anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers would agree with,” she says in a statement. “He gives them legitimacy.”

Zandberg charges that the agreement is part of “the phenomenon of Netanyahu and Likud joining with anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi leaders and parties around the world.”

The Foreign Ministry confirmed this week that Netanyahu will host Hungary’s President Victor Orban later this month. Numerous Israeli lawmakers have urged Netanyahu not to do so, citing among other things the right-wing Hungarian leader’s campaign against the Hungarian-American philanthropist George Soros that many considered obliquely anti-Semitic.

— Raoul Wootliff